Observation of a magic number in the ion
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M.Todd Coolbaugh; William R. Peifer; James F. Garvey
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Article
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1990
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We present in this Letter the observation of a magic number of n = 4 in the (C, H4) ,$ cluster ion distribution only under experimental conditions of low nozzle temperature or high stagnation pressure. We attribute this result not to any special thermodynamic stability of the neutral or ionic cluste